"Father?" Sean called with some confusion.
After a while, Father Taylor came back to his senses.
Fingers with thick knuckles rubbed his shiny forehead.
"I have to talk about the past in detail slowly...
"Gentlemen, are you in a hurry?"
Explorers are considered rare visitors, and Taylor thinks it is a rare opportunity for them to come here.
"No. Our plan today is to understand the situation in the orphanage."
"That's good." With that said, Taylor led Sean and Yueguang out of the living room and towards the dormitory of the orphanage.
"There were indeed cases of missing orphans happening here." Taylor walked in front without looking back.
Sean quickened his pace to keep up: "What is the specific situation?"
The priest did not answer directly, but just walked in front: "I will tell you in detail when we get there."
Soon, the group arrived at the dormitory building.
Thanks to the financial support of wealthy businessmen, the environment of Landers-Taro Orphanage is pretty good.
Unlike the kind of dormitory where all the orphans are squeezed into one big room, the dormitories here are actually four-person rooms.
The corridor was deep and dark, and obviously none of the orphans were there at the moment.
Walking towards the deepest part of the quiet corridor, you could only hear the footsteps of three people.
"This room has not been used since those children disappeared..."
Father Taylor stopped at the door of the innermost room and found a cast iron key from the key chain on his waist.
He held the key and took a deep breath.
It felt like I was back in my apprenticeship - waiting for the bishop's stern reprimand after doing something wrong.
After a while, Taylor inserted the key into the keyhole and opened the door to the room...
With a creak, the door was opened.
Entering the room, both Sean and Yueguang showed puzzled expressions.
This is……?
Ragdolls, pencils sharpened to thumb length, a box of glass beads and stones...
There are three beds in this room, and the things placed there clearly indicate that children once lived here.
However, almost everything is covered with dust——
Thick dust.
"Father, I don't understand..." Sean turned to Taylor, who looked at the things in the room and seemed to be deep in thought.
"Grey Dollins, Michael Dollins, Tony Dollins."
"These are the names of those three children."
The priest's eyes fell on a wooden bed.
"They disappeared one night ten years ago. There is still no news about them."
"Ten years ago?" Sean was a little surprised.
The evidence of damage he originally wanted to search for should have occurred recently.
As for the disappearance case ten years ago, God knows if it has something to do with that weird spiritual master...
"Yes. Before I knew it, so much time had passed...
Standing in this dusty room, Father Taylor narrated quietly: "Ten years ago, the night shift teacher passed by the door of the three children of the Dollins family and heard them playing a game they often played. Because It’s not bedtime yet, so the teacher doesn’t care.”
"What game?" Moonlight asked.
Taylor sighed: "The three siblings played house together. They pretended that Mr. and Mrs. Dolins were there, and their dog...
"The family often plays games in the room and invites many friends to play with them."
Back then, the younger Father Taylor witnessed their game during ward rounds and had participated in it once before, so he knew it very well.
Three children without a father or mother, pretending that their parents are still in the room...
This is really a bit poignant.
"Then, that day..." The priest closed his eyes, "I remember it very clearly. It was also December, close to Holy Home.
"The teacher on the night shift suddenly heard a burst of laughter coming from the room of the third sister and brother Duolin at bedtime.
"The teacher thought their game was not over yet, so he went to their room angrily..."
Standing in this room that had been dusty for ten years, both Sean and Yueguang listened in rapt attention, as if the past events were vividly in their minds.
"As a result, the teacher saw three children being taken away by something."
"Taken away?" Yueguang frowned in disbelief.
"That's right." Father Taylor walked to the tightly closed window and opened it to let the sunlight in. "The teacher described it like this at the time...
"She said that when she entered the room, she saw a shadow darting across the walls of the room.
"But the strange thing is that the shadow's true form cannot be seen...
"As if it were a thing that existed only in the shadow world."
"She is very sure that it was the shadow that took away the three siblings."
shadow?
In front of Sean's eyes, the scene of Mrs. Dominic's soul being taken away appeared again.
He raised his hand in shock: "Father Taylor, please wait...
"You mean, it was a shadow that took away the three siblings of the Dolins family?"
Ten years ago, the nightmare boy named "Peter Pan" already appeared in the New Testament?
The priest nodded.
"So, has something like this happened in the past ten years?"
Taylor's eyes became a little deeper: "Later, we strengthened our vigilance against strange things, and there were no more incidents of missing children..."
As early as ten years ago, Peter Pan took away the three siblings.
Then, he never harmed the children in the orphanage again...
Suddenly there was a slight vibration on the ground, causing Sean to temporarily break away from his thoughts.
what happened?
The three of them all felt the vibration and looked at the old wooden floor in unison.
Boom!
The vibrations on the ground became more obvious, as if there was a struggling giant beast trapped under their feet!
"What's wrong?" Moonlight looked at Father Taylor nervously.
The protector of the orphanage looked livid at the moment.
He protected the two guests with his back, turned his back to the door, and exited the room step by step.
"It seems..." the priest lowered his voice, "the topic we just talked about awakened something."
There was another loud noise, followed by the sound of wood being smashed——
A huge arm, obviously rotten, stretched out from under the wooden floor of the room.
"Is there a body buried under this room?" Moonlight asked loudly in surprise.
The priest still didn't answer, but looked coldly at a rotting giant, destroying the wooden floor, as if it had emerged from hell.
"You promised to take good care of them..."
The rotten vocal cords are like the whistling wind in a deep cave.
"You promised to take good care of them!"
The rotten giant emerged from the ground, like sewage gushing out, its swollen head pressed against the ceiling, it wailed, blamed, and questioned...
Father Taylor was already sweating profusely and panting.
